Little things ~Ziam Mayne~

-10-

Zayn
It's a few days later. Today I'm going with Liam, his mentor class and and two other teachers to Hinterux, in Austria for an exchange. I still don't get why we're going to fucking Austria. It's a 16 hour drive. But we're going to ski, so that's fun, except for my fear of heights, but okay. Liam almost forced me to go with them, so I need to. I thought about Liam a lot the last days. And about my sexuality, I did research, but maybe it's better just to not label myself.

It's only 6.30 A.M, but Liam will be here any moment to pick me up. The bus will leave at 7 A.M. I'm really sorry for everyone, but I'm not a morning person. I grab my earphones and my phone, then I hear the doorbell. Louis comes in the living room with a sleepy head. "There's someone outside" he says, grabbing a mug of coffee. "Must be Liam." I stand up and walk to the door. "Hi" I say, Liam smiles. "Hi."

I let Liam inside and grab my luggage. "Ah, today starts exchange week?" Louis asks. I nod. "Hi Liam" he says. "Hi Louis" Liam reacts with a smile. Louis grins at me, I roll with my eyes. "So, we're going, please don't burn off the apartment or do other stupid stuff" I say. "I'll try my best" Louis says laughing.

"You're not very cheerful" Liam says teasing when we got in his car. "You know I'm not a morning person" I say. Liam laughs. "Yeah I know, and I don't blame you" he says with a smirk. I'm just gonna act like I always do, and Liam will find out eventually if I like him back or not, something I need to figure out for myself too. I'm not in a rush. "Why are we going to Austria?" I ask to Liam. "It's so fucking far away." Liam laughs again. "I know, but I don't know why we're exactly going there, sorry" he says with a smirk. "I hate Simon for making us stand up this early" I say. "But I already hated Simon, so he's lucky." Liam chuckles. "Yeah Mr. Grumpy head, we're gonna sit together in the bus right?" He asks. I nod. That would make the ride maybe a bit better.

We're only 15 minutes away from London and the kids are screaming like shit. I hate bus rides like this, I hope they'll shut up in a while. I put my earphones in. "Can we share?" Liam asks, I nod and give him one of the earphones. Liam grabs my phone and puts "Charlie Brown" from Coldplay on. I look outside of the window, I'm never really a traveler, but I kinda like it, I guess.

The kids needs to sleep in homes of Austrian kids, that's what happens with an exchange. And us, the teachers, needs to sleep in a hotel. You don't hear me protest. Next to Liam and us sit the two other teachers. Also two men, I don't know why there aren't any female teachers with us but I don't care. I don't really know the teachers. One is a ginger haired man named Daniel Jones, and the other one has blond hair and his name is Nathan Evans. Daniel is an English teacher and Nathan is an German teacher. I don't know anything more about them.

Before I know it I placed my head on Liam's shoulder. It feels just so naturally. Resting my head on his shoulder like I always do, sleeping on his shoulder like I always do. "You're tired aren't you?" Liam asks, I nod slowly, I'm always tired, actually. Liam smiles. "You can sleep if you want?" I nod small, and before I know it I'm asleep.

I wake up because Liam stands up. "Li what-" I ask, but then I see that two boys are half-fghting. "C'mon boys, stop this" Liam says, he sounds pretty calm, respect. "Okay, Sean, you're gonna sit there" Liam says to the long brunette, he points to a chair. He sighs and walks carefully to the chair. Liam walks back to me. "Sorry for waking you up" he says apologising. "It's okay" I say, giving him a crooked smile. "It's not like your shoulder is the best pillow" I say teasing. He makes an offended sound. "I'd never hear you complain otherwise, Malik."

The bus trip is so extremely slow and boring. We're only 2 hours in the bus and I already feel like shit. "Ugh, I hate this" I say to Liam. "What? Me or the bus ride" he asks joking. "Both" I say joking back, Liam makes an offended sound. "Nah I'm kidding, the bus ride" I say laughing. "Same" Liam confesses. "Ah it's just 14 more hours" he says, we look at each other and then start to laugh. "Just 14 more hours? Man, we're only two hours away from London and I'm already feeling like crap" I say laughing. "I feel you" Liam laughs.

Liam and I already did like 5 games of chess on my phone, and we're still just 4 hours away from London. I'm literally dying. I trow my head in Liam's shoulder and groan. "What?" He asks chuckling. "This is so fucking boring, why'd you force me to go with you?" "Because it would be boring if you didn't come with me" he says, he ruffles trough my hair. "I would've missed you" he says. I smile in his shoulder. Maybe, maybe I like him back. I look at him. "I would've missed you too." Liam cheeks flush a bit, yep, he's definitely in love with me.

After I fell asleep for like 9 hours we only have to ride 3 more hours, finally, it starts to hurry a bit. Actually it was very fun with Liam this ride, we've laughed a lot. But it was kinda boring and my back hurts from sitting the whole time. Tiredly I spent the 3 last hours with listening some music on Liam's shoulder. And when I almost fall asleep again Liam shakes my shoulder. "Z, we arrived."